Hard to even describe: dense chewy donut-ish outer with a nice cracking/crumbling confectioners sugar frost. Inside an almost savory but sort of sweet. Thought it was white bean paste (but a bit more savory), very crumbly almost like cooked egg yoke. Not doing it justice, but it was sublime. Amongst the best deep fried things I have ever eaten.

Well, they can be stuffed with various things—sometimes a little ragu, mozz—in fact I've never had them with gorgonzola. Best I ever had were in 1998 in a train station in Palermo on my birthday, which happens to be August 15, i.e. a holiday in Italy, ferie d'agosto, when everything else in the city was closed. I'd been feeling very sorry for myself all day—until that first bite. Then everything was golden and new.

Just to clear up a few misconceptions. Arancini are a speciality of Sicilian cuisine. They are fried rice balls,filled with ragù (meat sauce), mozzarella, peas, On the outside they are simply coated with bread crumbs and fried.In Northern Italian cuisine, supplì di riso are similar, but typically are larger, have fewer vegetables, use gravy, and the rice used is generally leftover risotto rather than specially made. Neither would authentically use dolcelatte gorgonzola & fontina cheeses. In fact docelatte is a separate type of cheese it is in fact a milder smelling and tasting alternative. Fontina is very similar to Gruyere.In short Arancini and Suppli di Riso are two different things. A variant that uses gorgonzola and or fontina is not at all authentic, although I am pleased that you enjoyed it all the same.

And to the poster below, though I live in Beantown I far prefer NY style zeppoli, unless we are referring to Zeppoli di san giuseppe at Modern Pastry in the North End which is an amazing confection that I have posted about several times.

A lijha pirraka is kind of like a cruller dough filled w/ ground beef, rice & spice (allspice?) and deep fry it. Then cut open one end, it is the sze of an oblong Whopper, through in a couple of nakki (hot dogs) and your favorite condiments. Great after a night of Korskonkorva Vodka.Hyvaa Ilta (good evening)

Gee, maybe we were standing in line together. I belonged to Suomen Sauna Seura (The Finnish Sauna Society) Loved grilli makkara after sauna and dip in the frozen Baltic. I lived in Munkeniemi. What area did you?

I have share this link with you guys. It's the Helsinki Complaints Choir. Food-related part of this video: "Why is the 'Meter Pizza' only half a metre long?"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATXV3D...Enjoy!

Yes, I've seen it, but thanks. The beginning and the end are the Helsinki Train Station, with I think, the Lija pirrakka kiosk in the background. A Metre Pizza is a a large pizza, theoretically a meter across, but in reality, only half a meter. The TV license lyric is about the yearly license, about a hundred bucks, that one paid to have ad-free TV. They knocked on the door in the evening to check if you had one, if not, took the TV.Kiitos,Marrku

Passa, lived in Herttoniemi. And the market by the roundabout there had most spectacular tippaleivat (sort of like funnel cakes, but waaaay lighter and yeasty) for May Day. (Aaahh, with a glass of simaa!) Yet another great fried food from a country not especially tilted toward the vats of oil.

got, it, have 3 Finnish cook books, but very rarely deep fry. What I do want to know is where a Finnish restaurant is w/in the US besides the UP. There used to be one in Thomaston, Me were a lot of Fins settled for quarrying.

Those zeppoli di san giuseppe are cream-filled as opposed to "sfingi" which are ricotta based, right?.Fried? hmmm ... I'll go with "atherina" (whitebait), squeeze of lemon, shake of salt on any hot summer day.

eyes, I rarely eat deep fried so I remember the good ones. You, your cat (and what an honor), and I have to return to the remote parts of Burma. The kids were waving the goods on a stick (clamped, not skewered), my Burmese colleagues (best in the world) didn't want to stop or thought I wouldn't like them. Really delicious!!!

Me too, me too. And my cat too. Well, maybe she's too old but I'll eat her portion of sparrow. (Why do some people have problems with some birds but suck down turkey and chicken with abandon?) katty, please tell me that we're NOT going to have to eat beer-batter Oreos when we come see you this summer! I don't like sweets :)

You can have a pass since you don't like sweets. But fried Oreos end up tasting like a warm brownie when done just right...the cookie melts within the crispy batter coating and tastes oh so good over ice cream. MOOOOOO!

Living in Texas we get exposed to all sorts of "treats." The Texas State Fair has fried Twinkies, Oreos, Chicken Fried Bacon, Fried Banana Split, Fried Grilled Cheese, and...well here see for yourself:http://www.bigtex.com/foodlocator/

As you see the list goes on and on to neverending fried crap.

Anyway, there is a local arts festival in April that I love to attend downtown Fort Worth, but unfortunately the vendors bring in a lot of this stuff they pick up from the state fair. I've never been to the Texas State Fair, so long story short, yes, I've tried a fried twinkie. It was about 4 yrs ago at this arts festival and it was just plain gross.